Creve Coeur man charged with assaulting girl

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Apr 9, 2018 at 2:47 PMApr 9, 2018 at 2:51 PM

By Michael SmothersTimes Correspondent

A Creve Coeur man was charged Friday with repeated sexual assaults of a young girl a decade ago.

Several other young women told investigators that Montgomery Ritchey, 50, had committed sexual acts against them similar to the ones alleged in the case against him. Charges have yet to be filed based on their statements.

Ritchey, however, faces up to 30 years in prison if he’s convicted of the Class X charge of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. He’s also charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child.

His alleged victim, now 19, told police last August of the alleged assaults that she said took place over two years after she turned 8 in 2007, according to a prosecutor’s court affidavit.

Ritchey, of 257 Wagner St., was charged under a state statute that permits sexual assault charges to be filed “at any time” if the alleged victim was under age 18 at the time of the offense.

That statute was in place before the state eliminated time limitations to filing other forms of sexual assault charges last year.

Ritchey was ordered held on $75,000 bond. He’s next due in court on April 26.

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